Rerailing device.



A. D. COALSON.

RERAILING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED mu. 2. I917. LQ QQ, Patented 0st. 23,1917.

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A. n. coALsow.

' RERMLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 2. I917.

Patented 06. 23,1917.

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- ems? ARCHIE n, ooansoiv, or BIRMINGHAM; ALABAMA.

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To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Anorrm D. CoALsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jeflerson and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Rerailing Device, of. which the fol lowing is a specification. v 1 o *The present invention appertainsto rerailing devices and aims to-provide a novel, simple and inexpensive construction .designed to replace the wheels of a car which has been derailed.

It is the object of the invention to provide a rerailing device'having novel and improved features of construction, to enhance the utility and efficiency thereof. 7

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear asthe description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, itbeing understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit :of the invention.

The invention isillustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein v Figure 1 is a planview of the device as applied to a rail. a

Fig. 2 is a bottorn'view of the device. 2

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal. section taken on the line 83 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a cross section taken on the line 4-4ofFig.1. f

The present device is constructed of one piece of suitable metal, and can be cast, forged or otherwise manufactured. The device embodies an elongated longitudinal-shoe 1 adapted to seat in a horizontal plane upon the tread of the rail, and provided at its outer edge with a depending flange 2 coextensive inlength therewith and adapted to overlap the outer side of the tread orhead. of the rail, as seen in Fig. 4. The shoe 1 is provided at its inner edge with a flat hanger 3 coextensive in length therewith and adapted to overlap the inner side of the tread of the rail. Extending inwardly from the hanger 3 intermediate the ends of the shoe 1 and in a plane slightly below and parallel with the shoe 1 is a horizontal platform 4.

Reversed inclines 5 have their upper ends united with vthe opposite ends of the platform 4, and have their outer edges united with the lower edge of the hanger 3 as does Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Oct. 23, 1917. Application filed March2, 1917. Serial 1\T0152,022. I I i i also the platform I The hanger or hanger wall 3 serves to suspend theouter edge portions of the platform 4 and inclines'5 from the tread of the rail upon which the shoe 1 is seated. The shoe extends substantially throughout the length of'the device, whereby the device is held firmly in place against the rail. United with the inner edgeportions'of the platform 4 and inclines 5 is a supporting wall 6, the two halves of which are arranged at an obtuse angle relative to one another so as to converge toward the platform 4 and shoe 1, with the ends of the wall 6 spaced farther from the shoe '1 and rail and Y the intermediate angle portion thereof. The lower edge of the supporting wall 6 is provided with an "inwardly extending flange 7 disposed in a horizontal plane below the plane of the platform 4,-andsaid flange is adapted to seatupontheties of the track at the inner side of the rail to which the device is applied. The flange has openings 8 whereby the flange can be spiked upon the ties, if desired.

Upstanding fromthe npperedg'e of the supporting wall'6fis a guiding flange 9 .of v the same shape as thesupporting' wall, as

will beapparent-in Fig. 1, and this guide flange is preferably of equal height throughout the intermediate portion of said flange. at the inner side of the platform 4 eXtending slightly above the horizontal plane of the shoe 1, as seen in Fig. 4. The device has a reinforcing web or brace 10 between the intermediate portions of the supporting wall 6'andplatform4. V

The inclines 5 are provided thereon with longitudinal upstanding ribs; 11 which} are of'triangular or tapered form with their smaller or pointed ends terminatingimmediately adjacent to the opposite ends of the platform 4 or the adjacent ends of the inclines 5. The ribs 11 extend to the remote ends of the inclines 5, and the remote wider ends of the ribs 11 are of little if any height above the remote ends of the inclines 5, but said ribs 11 increase in height from their remote to their adjacentends. The adjacent end portions of the ribs have their upper edges or portions horizontal, as at 12,

for a short distance, and in the plane of the 5 shoe 1. Those sides of the ribs 11 adjacent to the shoe are arranged at acute angles 7 11o relative thereto and in the same vertical planes as the opposite halves of the flange 9, while the sides of the ribs 11 adj acentto ends of the inclines.

the flange 9 areparallel with the adjacent of the base flange of the rail, as seen in Fig. 4.

In use, the device is adapted to guide a wheel in either direction onto the rail, the wheel. moving onto the device at either end. The tread of the wheel travels upwardly upon the respective rib 11 while the flange of the wheel moves within the groove 13 onto the platform 4, upon which the wheel flange can rest and travel horizontally across the platform toward the shoe 1. The

wheel flange is directed at an oblique angle from the respective half of the flange 9 across the end of the opposite groove 13 to the outer side of the other rib 11, thereby shifting the wheel outwardly onto the shoe 1, from which the wheel will roll onto the tread of the rail from one end of the shoe. The platform l reduces the liability of the Wheel rolling back on the incline. The flange 9 serves to shift the wheel outwardly as it is moved up either incline, and from said flange, the wheel is moved to the other side of the correspondingrib 11 which completes the shifting of the'wheel onto the shoe 1 and rail. 7

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is 1. Arerailing device embodying an elongated shoe to rest upon a rall and havlng a depending hanger wall at its inner edge, an

inwardly extending platform connected to said, wall disposed in a plane below the plane of said shoe, inclines having their upper ends connected to the opposite ends of said platform and having their outer edges connected with said hanger wall, a supporting wall connected with the inner edges of said platform' and inclines and having a lower horizontal flange to rest upon the ties, and upstanding longitudinal ribsupon the inclines tapering and increasing in height from their remote to their adjacent ends,

and an upstanding guide flange above said supporting wall.

2. A rerailing device embodying an elongated shoe to rest upon a rail and having a depending hanger wall at its inner edge, an inwardly extending platform connected to said wall and disposed in a plane below the plane of said shoe, inclines having their upper ends connected to the opposite ends of said platform and having their outer edges connected with said hanger wall, a

edges of said platform and inclines and having a lower horizontal flange to rest upon the ties, and upstanding longitudinal ribs upon the inclines tapering and increas ing in height from their remote to their adjacent ends, and an upstanding guide flange above said supporting wall, said supporting wall and flange having their halves arranged at an obtuse angle with their ends supporting wall connected with the inner spaced farther from the shoe than their intermediate portions, and the adjacent ends of said ribsterminating at the adjacent ends of the inclines.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affiXe'd'my signature in the presence of two witnesses;

Witnesses:

T. E. CLARKE, H. H. HOWARD.

Copiesio f thispatentinay be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. '0. l

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